The nation’s biggest food and drink companies ponied up about $1.6 billion to advertise their products to kids in 2006, and critics say much of that cash went to push the unhealthiest of foods.A survey fr...

We all know watching lots of television isn’t exactly compatible with a healthy lifestyle. The more TV watched, the less we’re likely to exercise. The tube also, according to Canadian researchers, e...

America: Land of the free and home of the high? Pretty much, according to a new survey published in PLoS Medicine. According to the survey, 42 percent of U.S. residents have tried marijuana at least once. That&...

A powerful doctor’s group is recommending some kids as young as 8 be given cholesterol-lowering drugs.The drugs would be administered to children who exhibit several risk factors for heart disease, includ...

Documentary filmmakers Pete Schuermann, Robb Watt and Nancy Theken know a thing or two about college-time drinking. They’re college grads, after all, and they were known to quaff a few drinks themselves.W...

For decades, scores of studies have suggested couples living together before getting married are more likely to get divorced. New data gleaned from the census suggests otherwise.Women were 28 percent less likel...

For the first time in 15 years, teen pregnancies ticked upward in 2006, according to a report from the National Institutes of Health. About 22 out of every 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 17 got pregnant...

A recent poll from the Associated Press found about half of Americans feel public schools are doing only a “fair” to “poor” job of educating the nation’s kids. About three-fourths ...

Everyone knows boys are smarter than girls when it comes to math. Right? Well, not so fast. Apparently no one told today’s girls.Research recently published in the journal Science suggests that whatever g...

More and more youth are attending high school online, experts say. In fact, about 506,000 students took public school classes using the Internet or two-way video during the 2004-05 school year, according to the...